Our Teachers
At Forte Performing Arts Studio, we carefully select instructors with both professional industry experience and a strong foundation in arts education. Our faculty includes Broadway performers and collegiate-level educators who understand not only the demands of today’s performing arts industry, but also how to train and mentor developing artists in a healthy, supportive, and technically sound way.
We believe access to this level of instruction matters. Young performers benefit tremendously from working with mentors who have firsthand experience navigating professional performance spaces, conservatory training environments, auditions, and the realities of the industry. Our goal is to provide students with conservatory-informed training guided by current industry expertise — helping them develop strong technique, artistry, professionalism, and confidence from an early age.
Conservatory and Broadway Training at your doorstep.
Voice. Acting. Musical Theater. Opera
Our Teachers
Lindsey St. Onge
Founder of Forte PAS
.jpg)
Lindsey St. Onge is currently a vocal professor at Marymount Manhattan College and part of their college admission adjudication panel. She holds a BFA in Musical Theater Performance with an emphasis on directing from Boston Conservatory and an MA in Music Education from Columbia University Teachers College.
She has been studying and singing professionally for twelve years. Her vocal foundation as a classically trained opera singer allowed her to cross over into multiple genres as a vocalist, including musical theater, pop, and a lead singer of a jazz quartet.
Concurrent with her performing career she went on to study at Columbia Teachers College and has been a full-time educator ever since. She has taught all over New York City as a music teacher and in arts education more broadly. She served as a music teacher for the New York Philharmonic Young Artist program, a music educator at the prestigious Diller-Quaile School of Music, an arts coordinator for Storefront Academy Harlem, and a Musical Theater teacher at Bronx Charter School for the Arts.
In addition to her professional and collegiate background, she is also trained in the Dalcroze Methodology and has led numerous professional development trainings on vocal health and choral performance.
Tamar Greene
Broadway’s longest-running George Washington in Hamilton, is a vocal powerhouse known for his rich tone and commanding performances onstage and onscreen. He has graced stages worldwide – including venues across America, in Italy, Germany, England, and the Caribbean.
As a proud first-generation American, born of Jamaican and British parents, Tamar is a versatile artist whose musical passions mirror his eclectic background. As a writer, arranger, classical pianist and an opera singer, he combines much of his inspiration from Classical music, Reggae, Hip-Hop, R&B, Blues, and Jazz.
Alongside Tamar’s robust vocal studio, he is a frequent collegiate masterclass clinician and lecturer across America. Tamar’s fervent stance on Social/Racial equity has led him to be nominated as a representative for Ham4Progress, Hamilton’s racial justice task force, and has raised national census awareness, increased voter registration, and put action to the importance of investing in communities of color.
Dawn Cantwell
Select credits include: Broadway: 1776, dir. Diane Paulus/Jeffrey L. Page (Standby); Wicked, dir. Joe Mantello (Nessarose); Sting’s The Last Ship, dir. Joe Mantello (originated the role of Young Meg). Music in the Air, dir. Gary Griddin. National Tour: 1776; Les Miserables. Off-Broadway/Regional: Other Desert Cities, Coachella Valley Rep, dir. Phillip WM McKinley; Intimate Apparel, ATC, dir. Oz Scott; Dogfight, Second Stage, dir. Joe Mantello; Sistas:The Musical; F#%king Up Everything/Brooklyn Crush. Film/TV: Law & Order; Every Other Sunday (Amazon); The Train, opposite Eli Wallach; The Jumping Beans. BFA: NYU Tisch. www.dawncantwell.com.